Presence in the periphery.
Characters are meant to live beside documents, browsers, and tools you already have open. The Mac desktop is the natural stage for ambient life.
Mac desktop home
Characters that live on the desktop you already use.
DesktopOddities is the Mac surface of the Oddities family: ambient presence around your work, direct play when you reach for it, and authored personalities that keep a quiet rhythm of their own.
Why Mac
The desktop is the home base on purpose.
DesktopOddities belongs on macOS because the Mac desktop is already a long-lived workspace. Oddities share that plane instead of asking you to open a focus-locked game window every time you want company.
Hands-on when you want it.
Grab, place, toss, or poke where supported. Interaction stays available without turning every idle moment into a required quest.
A different SeaSoup product.
DesktopOddities is character play on the desktop. Astramar remains the separate macOS phrase-library and workflow product.
Ambient life
Personalities that keep moving.
Many Oddities idle, wander, and react without constant input. Pacing varies by character so the desktop can feel alive without becoming nonstop visual noise.
Authored autonomyBehaviors are written per Oddity. This page does not claim identical routines across the family.
Signature actionsSome characters perform distinctive moves on their own. Not every species supports the same autonomous set.
Quiet delightThe goal is ambient company, not a care-required pet sim or an AI chatbot.
Meaning lives in the copy. Decorative motion on this site is optional; with Reduced Motion enabled, the same story remains fully readable.
On the Mac desktop
Starter pair that can share a moment.
Peanut Butter and Jelly are DesktopOddities starter characters. Selected pairs can notice each other; the temporary combined form is not a separately owned species.
Approved public stills from the starter pair. Download the Mac build above when you are ready to try them on your desktop.
Direct manipulation
Grab, place, toss, poke - depending on the Oddity.
When you reach for a character, platform-appropriate direct play is invited. Interaction vocabulary is shared carefully; physics and signature moves are not universal.
Drag, place, and toss.
Move Oddities on the desktop stage. Throw or toss where that Oddity supports it. Same gesture may mean something different for another character.
Click, poke, and signature moves.
Light taps and character-specific actions invite experimentation without a tutorial checklist. Surprises stay spoiler-light on this page.
Together on the desktop
Selected Oddities notice each other.
When more than one Oddity shares the desktop, authored combinations may produce reactions, teamwork, cleanup, playful conflict, or other designed scenes. Exact pairings stay light here so discovery remains fun later.
Authored, not randomCross-character moments are designed personalities and scenes, not an open-ended social AI.
Not an exhaustive graphThis page does not list every interaction. Deeper browsing belongs with OddityDex when that surface ships.
Multi-Oddity where supportedSharing space is part of the Mac home story. Capacity and support vary by release and character.
Collection and settings
How DesktopOddities connects to the rest of the family.
Public hooks stay status-labeled. Unpublished destinations do not get soft redirects.
Characters you keep.
Desktop play sits alongside collection and discovery ideas across the family. Account and ownership claims stay gated until identity contracts authorize them.
Gated Account / Your Collection unpublished
Discovery journal later.
Learning traits and interactions over time is part of play. Public-safe Dex entries live on OddityDex.
Public now Browse OddityDex (catalog may be empty; species pages publish when projection rows exist)
Opt-in for intrusive features.
Where macOS permissions or system-interaction features apply, they should remain opt-in and understandable. This page does not promise permissions-free behavior for every capability.
Story preview Product settings ship with the app
Trust and availability
Permissions stay honest. Mac download is public.
macOS may require permissions for some capabilities. Company Trust explains SeaSoup posture. The Mac build below is the verified direct download for DesktopOddities 0.1.17. Pocket and Playground App Store destinations stay unpublished.
Company TrustSeaSoup Trust for company-level privacy and security posture - not a duplicate Oddities Trust page.
Mac download · 0.1.17Download DesktopOddities for Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+). SHA-256 in desktop-release.json.
No fabricated store CTANo purchase button or App Store link for Pocket/Playground. Unreleased features are not represented as bundled today.
FeaturesFamily capability overview
Family
How DesktopOddities relates.
“Oddities” is editorial vocabulary for the family. DesktopOddities is the Mac surface. The other two published pages name the iPhone and iPad surfaces.
PocketOdditiesiPhone companion and current App Store listing identity for the universal binary. The store is not linked here.
PlaygroundOdditiesiPad play-first experience in that same universal binary. Not a separate App Store product.
FeaturesFamily capability overview with honest status labels.
Why OdditiesPhilosophy and experience story for the family.
Family overviewOrientation for all three named experiences.
Boundaries
What this page deliberately omits.
Unknown availability stays unavailable. Unpublished routes stay absent rather than soft-redirected.
No fake prices or purchase buttonsCommerce appears only after approved adapters exist.
Verified Mac download onlyDesktop download points at the published 0.1.17 disk image on downloads.seasoup.io - not a GitHub archive or invented installer.
No permissions-free promiseCapabilities that need macOS permission are not framed as always available without consent.
Marketplace + OddityDex live; Account laterBrowse-only projections. Account stays gated.
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Return to Oddities experiences
Continue to the family landing, Why story, or another SeaSoup product. The Mac download for DesktopOddities is public; Pocket and Playground store destinations remain unpublished.